My first cake :)

It took me 4 hours to make this cake, I made it from scratch and it was my second attempt at making a cake. I made a simple chocolate cake and a cream icing. Read loads of blogs so got ideas from here and there. Once the cake was baked and cooled I was wondering why has it risen like a muffin (rather large one)
Was again online....cut the top off and then started with the icing. Was inspired to decorate the cake, made a cone like thing (like a mehendi cone) with the help of some plastic zip lock bag and some staple pins! added some pink food color to the icing  and filled the cone and drew some criss cross lines. Placed some store bought heart candies at every junction.... Sprinkled some chocolate spinklers on the sides, now my cake looked like a black forest cake from the sides! melted some chocolate and dipped 2 strawberries attached to toothpicks! everything was experimental! once the chocolate set I placed them on the cake at one corner. I was absolutely proud of my cake!